Shoe rack



' y 2, 1929- w. EJCOOMBES' ET AL I 1.719.320

SHOE RACK Filed March 16, 1925 Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. V

WARREN E. COOMBES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND EDWARD H, LERCI-IEN, OF

EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TQ UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORA- 'IION, 0F PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION 033 NEW JERSEY. i

SHOE RACK.

This invention relates to shoe racks of the type employed for storing and transporting shoes between successive operations of manu'tacture.

To tacilitate the preliminary attachment of wood heels to lasted shoes by means of adhesive material, use is made, frequently, of what is known as a C-clamp for the pur-' pose of temporarily clamping the heel in proper relation to the lasted shoe, until the adhesive is dried. At the present time, in the use oi? such clamps, it is common practice to place the lasted. shoe with its heel clamp upon a shell rack during the drying operation. Due to haphazard or careless placing o-t the shoes on the rack as well as to jostling it the racks are moved, considerable damage is often done by the strikin ot the clamps against uppers of adjacent shoes.

lit is therefore an important object oi? our invention to provide a rack for the reception of shoes with attached heel clamps, so constructed as to eliminate the trouble above described.

To this end, the present invention provides a novel rack in which, in addition. to members such as pins arranged. to support shoes up ght in the rack, means are providedfor positioning and holding heel clamps attached. to the shoes in order to prevent any undesirable displacement of the shoes and clamps. In the illustrated. construction, a pin bar carrying the shoe-supporting pins is provided with slots between each pair of pins adapted to receive the shoe clamps and operating to prevent both lateral and rota tional movement of the clamps and shoes. At the same time, the pin. bar is tilted upwardly so that the shoes andv clamps support ed by the pins will tend to slide toward the bar, thus preventing liability of the shoes sliding, or being jostled out of engagement with the pins.

In. the accompanying drawings,-

1 represents a portion of a shoe rack according to our invention with. a lasted shoe and clamp shown in position thereon, and

2 represents a portion of a frame supporting a tilted pin bar according to our invention.

A. pin bar 10 forming part of a frame, not shown, supports a plurality of pins 12 arranged in pairs. lllidway between the pins of each. pair the bar is provided with vertical slots 14: adapted for the reception of the backs of clamps such. as clamp 16 attached to a lasted. shoe 18. The pins of each pair converge at their outer ends to conform to the general shape oi? the last and are arranged to provide an. even seat for supporting shoes placed thereon bottoms up with heels extending toward the pin bar.

The bar 10 may be supported in any convenient manner, such as by a frame of the type disclosed in. United States Letters Patent No. laid-7,228, granted. May (S, 1923, on application of O. 1- Tibbetts. The illus trated. bar is supported. in such manner as to be slightly tilted. with. respect to the horizontal frame member 90, so that a lasted shoe and. clamp placed on. the pins will. tend to slide toward the bar, and. the clamp will be moved. into engagement in. a slot.

In the use oil: the rack a shoe is placed on apair of pins bottom up in such manner that the lorepart ot the shoe is supported upon the outer ends oi the pins, and the heel part extends inwardly into a position adjacent to the pin bar. The heel. clamp, projecting rearwardly, is engaged in one of the slots 14: in the pin bar 10, holding the shoe against lateral or rotational movement, thus preventing possibility oli contact between ad.- jacent shoes and clamps.

Having described. our invention, what we claim. as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Stairs is 1.. A shoe rack comprising a pin bar, pins extending laterally therefrom constructed and arranged to support shoes having heel clamps attached thereto, and slots in the bar between the pins arranged for the reception oil? "the clamps for preventing lateral or rotational. movement of the shoes in the rack.

2. A shoe rack comprising a pin bar, a plurality of pins arranged in pairs supported thereon, and. a slot in the pin bar for each. pair of? pins, the pins and slots being so C(mstruot-ed. and arranged that when a shoe is placed in position on the pins the heel clamp attached thereto is engaged in one of the slots in the bar.

8. In a device of the class described, a bar, means on the bar constructed and arranged for supporting a lasted shoe, the

bar hevingmeans for receiving a heel clamp attached to the shoe and engaging the heel clamp to maintain the shoe and clamp in an upright-position in the rack.

' 4:. In a device of the class described, a bar,

a, plurality of members carried by the bar for supporting shoes, and slots in the bar to receive and position clamps attached to shoes for holding the shoes against lateral or rotationalmovement 1n the rack, the bar being tilted above the horizontal for ensuring engagement of the clamps with the slots.

5. In a shoe rack, the combination with a pin bar, of a plurality of pairs of pins projecting laterally from the bar, each pair of EDlVARD H. LERCHEN. 

